Steering control for motor-vehicles



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STEERING CONTROL FOR MOTOR VEHICLES.

- APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15. 1918- Patnted Mar. 16, 1920.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ,(SFFICE;

ANTHONY vsEIrr, or GASEYVILLE, ILLINOIS,

STEERING CONTROL FOR MOTOR-VEHICLES.

To all w/wmit may concern Be it known that I, AN'r oNY sill-P1311, clt-izen of the United States, residing at Caseyville, in the county of St. Clair and State of Illinois, have invented a new and steering oroscillating arms forturning the front wheelsof a vehicle, and to prevent the front wheels from imparting movement 1 back to the hand-wheel of the steering-post when they roll over "an uneven .or rough road-bed.

.A further object of the invention is to overcome certain important practical ob jections to, andd-efects in, the usual type of ap nded.

steering control f ow in use which permits the front wheels toimpart motion back to the steering-post.

With the above and other'objects in view. the invention consists in certain new and novel features of construction. arrangement and combination of parts, as will be more i fully described in the following specification 30 and finally pointed out in the claims hereto eferring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,- where- 'in like characters of reference denote similar parts throughout the several views:

Figure 1, is a side elevation of a steering controlconstructed in accordance "with my invention, the housing therefor being shown in tion. I

.ig. 2, is a top view of the steering con trol taken on line AA of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3, is a view looking in direction of the arrow B, of Fig. 1, but showing a Ford steering-arm and cross-rod ailixed thereto in lieu of the yoked steering-arm and connecting-rod shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4-, is a side elevation of the device.

In carrying out the embodiment of my inventibn as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, I employ a steering-post 1, having a hand wheel 2, and provided with means whereby motion is imparted to any Specification of Letters Patent. I -P3,tntad lVIFtl. 16, 1920. Application filcdJune 15, I

1918. Serial No. 240,157.

the oscillating movement of the steering arm 3, through rotation of the steeriirg-postQ, the front wheels of a vehicle'will be moved to the right or left to guide the vehicle in the deslred direction. It will here beunderstood, that it is impomible for the, frontwheels to impart movement back to the steering-post 1, and hand-wheel 2, owing to the construction, arrangement and combination of gearing formingthe'important part of my invention, which connects the lower end of the steering-post 1 to the shaft to which .the steeringnrm 2 is fixed. The.

gearing is inclosed within a suitable housing or casing 4 havin a dividingwall or partition 5 to form at upper chamber 6 and a lower chamber. 7 to receive and protect the gearing against" injury from contact with dust and foreign bodies. I

As illustrated .in Fig. 1, of the drawings, the lower end of the steering-post 1 extends into the upper chamber 7, of the housing 5, and is surrounded by means of ball or other bearings 8, so that the steering-post 11 may be rotated with ease through the. steering or -hand wheel 2. The lower end of the steering-post' 1 is provided with a 'relatively large gear-wheel 9 which is adapted to mesh with two oppositely disposed pinions 10 and 11 which pinions are located in the upper chamber 7 and suitably fixed-to the upper ends'of the spaced shafts 12 and 13, respec tively. The shafts 12 and 13 are surrounded at their upper end by means of ball or other bearings 14 and15, respectively, and they lie parallel with shown in Fig. 1.

the steering-post; as clearly I The lower end of the shafts l2 and 13 are surrounded by means of the ballor other bearings 16 and 17 respectively, and. are provided-with the worms 18 and 19, respectively. Theseitwo oppositely disposed worms 18 and 19, areadapted to mesh with a worm-gear 20 fixed to the transverse shaft 21. Shaft 21 is surrounded near each end with the ball or other bearings 22. Shaft 21 lies at a right-angle to the longitudinally disposed shafts 12 and 13 and the steeringpost 1. The center of the shaft21 is in a line with the center of'the steering-post 1, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

It will be seen that the worm-gear 20 is disposed at a right-angle to the spur-gear 8.

The steering-arm 3 hereinbefore described 'is suitablv fixed to one or both ends of the shaft 21, as desired.

It will be observed that it is impossible to turn the worms through the medium of the front wheels of a vehicle, as the double acleft, as desired. The gear 9 being fixed to the steering-post 1 causes it to rotate there with and transmit motion from opposite sides thereof, to the pinions 10 and I1, which in turn, rotate shafts 1'2 and 13 and worms l8 and 19 fixed thereto. respectively. The worms in turn, transmit motion to the wormgear 20 on opposite sides thereof, causing shaft 31 and the steering-arm 3 to more in the direction desired, as is manifest.

From the foregoing; description it will be seen that I provide a simple mechanism that is easily and uickly actuated for turning the front wheels of a vehicle by means of the steerimwavheel and )ost and substantially locked against "motion through the u-ncdimirof the front wheels of a vehicle.

The many advantages of the hereindescribed invention will readily suggest them- I selves to those skilled in the art to which it While I have illustrated and described the structure of device I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it clearly understood thatL-the steering control shown in the drawing 'isflicrely illustrative of a gearing having?a doiiblc-action and I partment of the housing, a pinion fixed to the upper end of each shaft within the upper compartment of the housing, a steering 1 arm shaft, a gear fixed to said steering arm shaft within the lower compartment of the housing, and a worm fixed to each of said spaced shafts within the lower compartment of the housing to oppositely engage the gear fixed to the: steering arm shaft.

In combination, a housing havingian upper chamber and a lower chamber, a steering post adapted to enter said upper chamber, a pair of longitudinally disposed shafts" arranged in the lOWQlIsCllflIIlbGl' and adapted to enter the upper chamber, a transversely disposed shaft adapted to pass throughsaid lower chamber, a'steering arm fixed to said transversely disposed shaft, and a gearing control establishing a double action between the transversely disposed shaft and the steering-post and so arranged that the steeringpost may transmit motion to the transversely disposed shaft to move the steeringarm but not permit the steering arm to impart motion through the gearing back to the steering-post.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name to the specification.

ANTHONY snirr. 

